Passenger-car.



F. H. LINCOLN. PASSENGER CAR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 1908.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

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F. H. LINCOLN PASSENGER CAR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1908.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

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PASSENGER GAR. APPLICATION FILED JULY l8 1908.

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FREDERICK H. LIHCOLH, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PASSENGER-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 5, 1909.

Application filed July 18, 1808. Serial No. 444,229.

Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented certain new and useful improvements in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a new type of railway car designated as enter-and-paywithin car; and in such connection'it relates to the constructive arrangement thereof.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a passenger railway car, whereof the aisle of the main car-body strueture leads directly to platforms through doorways or wide unobstructed'end openings with a device extending from the floor and located substantially midway of said openings, said device serving to not only define but also to maintain the standing position of a conduc-- tor at either end of the main car-body structure and to provide the entrance and exit. ways to and from said main car-body structure to the platform and means to support an operating device for controlling mechanism to open and close a side or door of a platform, whereby the conductor not only has absolute supervision over the entering and departing of passengers but can from his defined position control the opening and closing of a door or doors through mechanism that ma be concealed within the main carbody structure. The said device enabling him to obviate overcrowding about a platform and to thereby avoid many accidents incidental to persons carelessly attempting to enter or leave a car.

The nature, scope and characteristic features of my lIIVGl'ltlOll will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1, is a central longitudinal sectional view, through arailway passenger car, embod ving essentially main features of my said invention. Fig. 2, is a side clevational view .o'l one end platform, and in broken section,

a portion of the main car body structure, showing a general form aswell' as the outside appearance of a railway passenger car. Fig. 3, is a vertical transverse sectional view, on the line 0:, m, of Fig. 1. Fig. 4, is a central longitudinal sectional view, partly in broken section, of one end portion of the main car body structure and a platformsiirectly' connected therewith, showing platform side or door opening and closing mechanism, concealed within the said structure and with the doors or sides respectively, op-

erated by manual devices from the front of either platform by either a motorman or from midway of each wide opening of. the main car body structure, by a conductor.

Fig. 5, is a vertical sectional view on the line y, y, of Fig. 1. Fig. 6', is a view partly in front elevation and partly in section of a platform side door, in a closed position, and the mechanism, in detail, for controlling the opening and closing of such door and which mechanism is ad'aptedto be concealed within a compartment of the main car body structure. Fig. 7, is a top or plan view of said platform side or door opening and closing mechanism. Fig 8, is a vertical sectional view through said mechanism on the line 2', a, of Fig. '7 and Fig. 9, is a central sectional view through the four-way valve for the air pressure piston cylinder of the door opening and closing mechanism.

Referring to the drawings 6, is an ordinary type of electric-motor or railway assenger car provided at each end, as ilustrated, with a. platform 7 sunken and partially inclosed and having side steps 8 and 9, leading therefrom. The sides of the platform 7 are provided with openings, respectively closed by doors 10 and 11, slidable int-o housings 12, provided in the main car body structure 13. The railway car, as illustrated, in Figs. 1 and 3, as to the main an body structure 13, may have the seats a and 7), arranged lengthwise against the respective sides or any' other arrangement thereof to provide an unobstructed wide aisle 14. The plan of the car as shown in Fig. 1, is such, as that one end is precisely the same as the other, but if preferred, the car may be arranged as is the rear or left hand end in Fig. l, and the front or right hand end be arranged differently, or as such is ordinarily planned on street railways, with a front vestibule or open platform, not shown.

The respective ends 15 and 16, of the main car body structure l3, are arranged to provide openings at each end substantially corresponding to the full width of the aisle of the car, as fully illustrated in Fig. 1. Midway of these openings and projecting from the floor of the platform 7 adjacent to the structed meeting of the respective of the double headed piston 27, as clearly- The hand operating lever 19,

latforms with the main car body structure 13, at both ends is provided an inverted U- shape tubular device 17, preferably obliquely positioned, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and t, and through one member of the said device 17, extends vertically a rotatable rod 18, whose end is adapted to engage a'manual operating lever 19, of a door opening and closing mechanism to be hereinafter fully described. The vertical rod 18, of the said mechanism, beneath the platform 7, is provided with a crank-arm 20, for operating a lever-rod 21, which rod is pivotally connected with a hell crank 22, and the same in turn is connected with a vertical lever-arm 23. The lever-arm 23, is pivotally connected at one end to a bell crank 24, which latter by a longitudinal rod 25, is eccentrically connected by a lever 25 with the stem 26, of a four-Way valve 26, as fully shown in Fig. 9, by means of tubes a and a and ports a and a directly connected with the front and rear ends of an air pressure piston cylinder 27, and with a supply 28. The plug (Fig. 9) of the valve 26, by branches a and a serves to connect the supply pipe 28, with one of the pipes a or a, and-at the sametime connect the other of said pipes with the exhaust from the cylinder 27. On the crankshaft 30, upon which the bell crank 24, is loosely mounted is fixed a sector-gear 29, arranged to mesh with a rack I), of the stem illustrated in Fig. 6, and beyond the air pressure piston cylinder 27, in supporting castings Z) and Z)", for the crank-shaft 30, and reciprocating with the said sector-gear 29, is arranged a slanting door operating lever-arm 32, connected with each of the side doors 10 and 11, by means of movable bearings 33, slidable on the vertical rods 34;, of the respective doors to one of the sides thereof, as clearly-illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. Through the foregoing arrangement of mechanism for operation as above described ispermitted by the conductor standing about the device 17, within the car-body structure by means of the manual operating lever 19, by turning the same for about a quarter turn in one direction to quickly open a door 10 or 11, and by a reverse movement then of the said lever to close a door 10 or 11.

In the front of each platform 7, the car is provided with the usual controller 35, and wheel-brake operating lever 36, and in addition with a manual or hand operating lever 19*, for operating by the motorman, the described door opening and closing mechanism instead of by the conductor, as explained, and in the following manner.

by a crank (2, is connected with a rod 21*, which in turn is by a bell-crank 22 connected with a rod 23, and this in turn is connected with a bellcrank 23", and that with the vertical rod 23,

in the same inanner'as the bell crank 22, of-

Fig. 4, is connected with the vertical rod 23,

for operating the door opening a d closing mechanism as shown to the right in F ig, 4,

hand door 10, of the car to be opened or closed. The said mechanism for opening and closing the platform car doors 10 and 11, in Figs. 4 and 5, is shown in box-like compartments 36 and 37, of the contracted parts of the respective seats a and I).

it will be fully understood from Figs. 1 and a, that the essential feature of my pres-v ent invention is the provision of wide unobstructed openings at one or both ends of the main car body structure leading directly to the car platform or platforms and in conjunction therewith the provision of means midway of said openings to define entrance and exit ways to and from the main car body structure 13, with relation to a platform 7, as well as to define and maintain the conductors position for collecting fares and operating said manual means to control opening and closing mechanism for shifting a door 10 or 11, of a platform-7 and also through the inspective control the conductor at all times has of the car to obviate thereby many accidents due to carelessness of persons, in alighting from or entering a rail-.

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Having thus described the nature and ob jects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A passenger car provided with a..main

body structure with end openings of substantially the full width of the aisle thereof merging with a platform having movable sides or doors, a railing arranged about nnd- Way of the merging of said main car structure with said platform and .a manual op- 3. A passenger car having a main-body structure with an end opening of substantially the full width of the aisle thereof where merging. with a piatfor-m having closable sides or doors, means located "about and way transversely of the structure end opening to define the entrance and exit ways'from a platform to the body of the car and to shift the platform sides or doors independently of each other.

4. A passenger car having a main-body structure with the entrance and exit ways formed at the widest partof the aisle portion where joining with a platform provided with doors movable lengthwise of the car, a manual operating device located midway of said widest portion to define the entranceand exit ways from the platform to the body of the car and mechanism located under the car and connected with said manual operat ing device for moving one of said doors.

5. A passenger car having a main-body structurewith end openings of substantially the full width of the aisle immediately adjoining a platform at a different plane from the main-body structure and a device provided with door operating means located 111 said opening to define the entrance and exit ways from the platform to the ma in-body of the car and the door operating means of said device opening and closing the platform.

(3. A passenger car having a main-body structure, one of the end openings being of a width corresponding to the aisle where merg ing with a platform having sides or doors adapted to be shifted, a railing located at a point midway of said end opening to define the entrance and exit ways from the platform to the main body. a hand operating lever extending from said railing and means for shifting either of the platform sides or doors to and from said main-body and said means connected with said hand operating lever.

7. A passenger car provided with a platform having movable sides, said platform directly connected with the widest unobstructed internal portion of the car where merging with the platform and means located midway transversely'of said portion to define the entrance and exit ways from a platform with the body of the car and to control the movement of said platform sides.

8. A passenger car provided with a platform located at adifferent plane fromlth'e main car bodv, the widest unobstructed in-.

ternal portion of the same being where mergmg directly with the platform, means opening and closing a portnn platform and a device arranged suostant" midway transversely of said portion and form located at a different plane from the main car hody, the widest unobstructed internal portion of the same being where merging with the platform, means for opening and closing one of the sides of said. platform and an operating device in said portion and defining the entrance and exit ways from said platform to said main car-body. and said device operatively controlled by a conductor, to permit of persons entering and dcparting to and from said main car-body.

' 10. A passenger car provided with a platform located at a different plane from the main car-body, the widest unobstructed internal portion of the same being where merging with the platform, mechanism to open and close said platform and manual means extending from beneath the floor of said portion and serving to define the entrance and exit ways from the platform to the main carbody.

11. A passenger car provided with wide entrance and exit ways at both ends of the main car-body structure connected with incloscd platforms, respectively, at. different planes to that of said main car-body structure, said platforms having movable longitudinal sides, means for operating said sides and a device located midway transversely of both wide ends of said main car-body to detine the entrance and exit ways to and from the same. and said device operatively con nected with said means, substantially as and for the urposes described.

12. A passenger car provided with a main car-body structure having a wide opening at one end and directly connected with an inobstructed end opening connected with a platform having a closable side, a device provided with door operating means located about said end opening, said device dividing the same respectively, into entrance and exit ways to and from said platform and mechanism concealed within the main carbody structure and connected with said means for regulating the closable side of said platform.

M. A passengercar having a main carhody structure with a wide aisle and an unobstructed wide end opening Wheie merging with a closable platform and wherein projects a device to divide said opening into entrance and exit ways to and ,'from said body structure having a'longit-udln'al aisle and an endclosable platform and provided with a door way or opening between the body and the platform whose widthis substantially the full Width of the end of the aisle, in combination with a device located substantially at the center of said opening for'defining the conductors position and the entrance and exitiways to and from said,"

body structure rand said device provided with operating means to control the closablfe mechanism of said platform.

16. A passenger car, comprising a main body structure with corresponding closable end platforms, the aisle of said structure corresponding in width substantially with openings at the respective ends of. said struct-ure where merging in said platforms, means located in said openings to define the normal position of a conductor and divide sald opensaid ,p atforms, and said means controlling the operation of'a .device actuating mechanism of the closable end platforms to thereby control the entrance to and exit from said 17. A passenger car having a post located in an opening at one end of a car body, the opening beingfwider than the aisle of the body and the post'formingthe conductors station beyond the platform of the car structure.

18. A passenger carhaving a main car body and end platform, theinieeting arrangement of the body with theplatform being such as to provide 'an opening"wider than" the aisle of the body and means'ldcated in said opening to constitute a-conduotors Stilt tion between said platformvand body., 7

in Witness whereof, I have hereunto set, my signature in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses. f FREDERICK H. LINCOLN. lVitnesses:

FRANK B. ELLIS, l/VM. W'. Dwrnn. 

